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Wikidata identifier:: Q895368
Also known as:: The Bovington Tank Museum
Instance of:: military museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum; Designated collection
Accreditation number:: 820
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Arms and Armour Collection

The museum maintains the finest collection of tanks in the world, which is the main strength of the museum and the collection for which the museum received Designation. There is a firearms collection of some 400 items. It includes a silver-plated Webley revolver carried by Oliver Locker-Lampson MP when he commanded British armoured cars in Russia in 1917. There is also a rare armoured version of the gas-operated Vickers machine gun, c.1942, and an almost definitive range of tank-mounted machine guns. The tank collection ranges from the first tank ever built, ‘Little Willy’, an experimental vehicle built in 1915, to an unparalleled range of recent armoured vehicles from all over the world. There are ten tanks surviving from the First World War, two of which are maintained in running order. This group includes one French and four British tanks which are the sole surviving examples of their type. Notable in the collection are the Rolls Royce armoured car and the Humber Scout Car, both of which have important histories. The vehicles from the D-Day landing are also important: a swimming Sherman tank; an airborne Tetrarch light tank, displays inside part of a Hamilcar Glider; a mine-clearing Flail tank; and the amphibious DUKW and Buffalo tanks. There is also a Churchill Crocodile tank. There is a British Centurion tank, the post-War design which combined the qualities of mobility, firepower and protection, the three essentials in tank design. The 105mm gun carried by Centurion became the NATO standard for the next 20 years. There is also the Challenger Mk I, which equipped the Armoured Corps in the Gulf War of 1991. Foreign tanks are well represented, particularly those of American and Russia, including: Russian T34, Panther (Panzer Mk V) and T72 tanks. There is also a selection of Iraqi vehicles captured during the Gulf War.

Subjects

Armour; Weapons and War; Weapons; Armoured vehicles; Army; Arms and Armour; Transport; Military transport (land); Service (military); Life in wartime

Medals Collection

The First World War selection includes two Victoria Crosses awarded to officers of the Tank Corps. Both medal groups held with citation and the portrait of the recipient. The medals of Lt W Hayward (Tank Corps) include both a Military Cross and a Military Medal and represent a most unusual group. The Second World War medal groups are also impressive and the museum displays one of the two Victoria Crosses awarded to members of the Tank Corps. This was awarded to Lt Col H R B Foote for his outstanding courage whilst in command of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment at the Battle of Gazala in 1942. Equally unique are the award of a Military Medal with three Bars to Sgt F Kite for bravery throughout the Second World War, and the United States Bronze Star presented to WO2 J Norman for helping American prisoners of war to escape. Post-1945 awards include several from Korea, Aden and Northern Ireland, and United Nations medals awarded to WO2 S C Eaton RTR for his service the Yeoman of the Guard: this award is a personal gift from the Queen. Foreign awards include the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan); the Order of the Striped Tiger (China); and the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus (Italy). The medal collection reflects awards to members of the Royal Armoured Corps and its predecessors. Spanning the period from the First World War to the present, the collection has 550 medal groups to both officers and soldiers; campaign and gallantry medals; two remarkable family groups; and several foreign awards. It is a strength of the museum.

Subjects

Coins and Medals; Weapons and War; Army; Service (military); Medals

Costume and Textile Collection

The uniform collection comprises clothing worn by all ranks in the Cavalry and Royal Tank Regiment from the First World War to the present day. The collection includes examples of the First World War tank crew leather helmets and chain mail masks, reflecting the harsh conditions inside early tanks. A large collection of Nazi insignia and accoutrements is on loan to the museum from a former Royal Tank Regiment member.

Subjects

Weapons and War; Costume (uniform/regalia); Army; Costume and Textile; Costume (workwear); Service (military); Life in wartime

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q116738964
Instance of:: independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 2051
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Collection history (Collection development policy)

Tarbat Historic Trust was set up to find a viable end use for historic St Colman’s Church in Portmahomack. Site investigation led to the discovery of significant Early Christian remains in the form of a Pictish monastery and Early Medieval Church, and so St Colman’s Church was renovated to tell the story of this internationally significant site and the history of its local setting. Some of the principal artefacts recovered during excavations are loaned to Tarbat Discovery Centre by National Museums Scotland for long term display. The management of the items on loan from NMS is governed by a written agreement. Ultimate curatorial responsibility for these items rest with NMS, whilst the Trust must ensure that all conditions with regard to security, display, insurance and environmental conditions are met.

The museum also has its own collection of items that have been donated by the public or allocated by Treasure Trove in the years since the Trust was formed. These pertain largely to the social, archaeological and natural history of the Tarbat Peninsula. They span objects from the Neolithic through to the 20th Century. The collection also contains a number of items specifically related to the history of Tarbat Old Church.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2020

Licence: CC BY-NC
Collection overview (Collection development policy)

Many of the items currently on display are sourced from the archaeological excavations carried out in Tarbat Old Church and the adjacent Glebe Field from the 1990s onwards. Following the excavations, the assemblages were declared to the Treasure Trove Unit and subsequently assigned to the National Museums Scotland (NMS). Some of these items were in turn loaned to the Trust. This means that ultimate curatorial responsibility rests with NMS, whilst the Trust must ensure that all conditions with regard to security, display, insurance and environmental conditions are met.

These items include early Christian carved stone monuments, artefacts relating to manufacture such as crucibles and moulds, styli, polishing stones and environmental remains including animal bone and charred grains. Some replicas of carved stones and metalwork are also loaned to us. In addition the Centre houses the Human Remains recovered during the excavations.

The management of the items on loan from NMS is governed by a written agreement. Loan agreements will be reviewed on a yearly basis.

The Trust’s Permanent Collection contains some prehistoric and medieval material including a carved stone ball, a stone macehead, arrowheads, ceramics and replica Viking ring money. The human remains recovered during mains water works in the Balnabruach area are also housed here. However, the majority ofthe collection dates to the post-reformation period and is specifically related to the history of Tarbat Parish. These relate to a variety of subject areas includingagriculture, fishing, medical, commerce, military, social & domestic, religion and education. This includes an archive of photographs and documents from the 20thcentury.

The Collection also contains a number of items specifically related to the history of Tarbat Old Church, including Communion cups, a Christening bowl, plate, tokens and bibles.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2020

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q430682
Responsible for:: Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; Tate Modern; Tate St Ives
Also known as:: Tate Gallery, Tate galleries, National Gallery of British Art, The Tate, The Tate Gallery, Tate Museum
Instance of:: art museum; copyright collective; open-access publisher; museum network
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Fine Art Collection

The collection of British art dates from the 16th century to present and includes works by UK- born artists and those living and working in Britain or territories of Britain. The Tate also collects foreign art, mainly of Western Europe and North America and from 1900 to present day. A range of material has been acquired through bequests, gifts and special purchase funds and includes the original works presented by Sir Henry Tate at the end of the 19th century to form the Tate Gallery in London included J E Millais’s ‘Ophelia’ and J W Waterhouse’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’, together with other works by Lady Butler, Stanhope Forbes, Sir Edwin Landseer and Sir William Quiller Orchardson. The Robert Vernon collection, originally presented to the National Gallery in 1847 has gradually been mostly transferred to the Tate and includes paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and J M W Turner and sculptures by E H Baily and John Gibson. The Turner Bequest of 1856 is the largest collection of paintings, drawings and watercolours by JMW Turner in the world and comprises nearly 300 oil paintings and around 30,000 sketches and watercolours (including 300 sketchbooks). There are also a small number of oils, watercolours and prints, which have been acquired independently. Tate’s modern print collection includes 650 lithographs by such artists as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland and John Piper, gifted by the Curwen Studio in the mid-1970s. Another major gift by Rose and Chris Prater, mainly in the 1970s featured a copy of each print made by their screenprinting company and included works by Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield and Peter Blake. The collections of British prints and drawings date from the 16th century to present day. Pre-1900 drawings are generally collected because of an association with existing paintings in the collection, but also include works that are significant in their own right. The Oppé collection contributed greatly to this part of the collection, with over 3,000 drawings, oil sketches and prints by many major and lesser-known British artists. The collection is particularly strong in 18th and 19th century works and includes watercolours by Alexander and John Robert Cozens, John Downman and Francis Towne and oils by Thomas Jones, works by John Constable, J S Cotman, George Richmond, J M W Turner and J W Inchbold. Tate Liverpool draws from the Modern and Contemporary collections of the Tate for its displays, as described below. The Tate holds a significant collection of works by Henry Moore and those of Francis Bacon such as ‘Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion’ 1944, ‘Figure in a Landscape’ 1945, ‘Triptych’ 1972 and ‘Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957. There are also important works by internationally renowned artist Lucian Freud (‘Self Portrait’ 1946, ‘Girl with a White Dog’ 1950-1, ‘Naked Portrait’ 1972-3, ‘ Two Plants’ 1977-80 and ‘Standing by the Rags’ 1988-9). The work of sculpture Anthony Caro is represented through substantial holdings, whilst work by Paula Rego comprises two major paintings. David Hockney works comprise ‘My Parents (1977), ‘Third Love Painting’ (1960) and ‘Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style’ (1961). A collection of 1960s abstract sculpture by David Annesley, Michael Bolus, Phillip King, Tim Scott, William Tucker, William Turnbull and Isaac Witkin was gifted in 1970 by Alistair McAlpine. Other contemporary artists represented in the collection include Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Davie, Kossoff, Kitaj, McCom, Hamish Fulton, Alan Charlton, Buckley, Avis Newman, John Murphy, Helen Chadwick, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst and other British artists. A gift of 60 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography made in 1996 by Janet Wolfson de Botton enhanced the contemporary collection with the addition of works by Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Cindy Sherman, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Reinhardt Mucha and Nancy Spero, together with works by Andy Warhol (an early Electric Chair) and Bill Woodrow (Elephant 1984). Recent significant additions to the fine art collections include ‘Brighton Pierrots’ by Walter Sickert, and the sculpture of ‘Jacob and the Angel’ by Epstein. Work by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska includes the ‘Red Stone Dancer and there are also exceptional works by Stanley Spencer including ‘The Centurion’s Servant’ and ‘Double Nude Portrait’ and a good collection of paintings by Ben Nicholson. The foreign collections of paintings include exemplary works by the Great Masters including Beckmann (‘Carnival’ 1920 and ‘Prunier’ 1944), Brancusi (‘Fish’ polished bronze form), Braque, Duchamp (‘Large Glass’ – replica by Richard Hamilton and the ‘Coffee Mill’), Léger, Matisse (‘The Snail’ 1953 – a key work, ‘Portrait of Derian’, ‘Trivaux Pond’, ‘Nude Study in Blue’, ‘Standing Nude’, ‘The Inattentive Reader’, ‘Notre Dame’, ‘Studio Interior’ and other supporting works, and the complete series of ‘Backs’).), Mondrain and Picasso (‘Three Dancers’ 1925 and ‘Nude Woman in a Red Armchair’ 1932) and two exemplary works by de Chirico from the pre-war period. Key donations to the collection of international art include those from Frank Stoop and his niece Mrs A F Kessler, which included works by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Raoul Dufy. Works pre-1920 include major Futurist works by Ball and Severini and a painting by German artist Kirchner (repainted after his Expressionist phase), together with a Max Beckmann painting from 1920 and two major works by Schmidt-Rottluff. There is also a collection of Fauve paintings including ‘Pool of London’ by Derain and reciprocal portraits of Matisse and Derain. Fauvism, together with late Cézanne effectively marks the start of the foreign art material. The collections dating from the inter-war years includes work artists such as Derain (‘The Painter and his Family’ and ‘Portrait of Madame Derain in a White Shawl’), a painting by Balthus, ‘Torso of a Young Man’ by Martini, a good group of paintings by Bonnard dating from 1915-1925, work by German artists Dix and Schad, a 1926 work by de Chirico and minor still life by Morandi and a number of portraits by Giacometti. Post-war collections include paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Dubuffet (1947 a landscape and a 1950 ‘Woman’). ‘Nude with Loaves’ by Hélion, a collection of Rothko paintings including the Seagram murals, early paintings by Newman, a collection of works by Pollock (one of the best outside North America) and a 1906s painting by de Kooning. Recent paintings (1960-1972) include works related to the Arte Povera movement in Italy of the 1960s such as those by Fabro, Penone, Kounellis and Merz. German artists of the recent period are also well represented including Beuys, Baselitz, Polke, Richter, Horn and Palermo. The collection of American art includes works by Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Ryman, Marden and LeWitt. Pop and Minimal art are presented by a number of major works including those of Andre (‘Equivalent VIII’) and Lichtenstein (‘Whaam!’). Drawings in the collection by foreign artists are generally major works of art in their own right or major studies for works of art already in the collection. The collection includes a drawing and almost complete set of etchings by Wols, a major European abstract artist of the 1950s. Foreign prints include some early 20th century works but are primarily from the 1960s onwards. The foreign contemporary art collections include recent acquisition of works by Georg Baselitz, Ulrich Ruckriem, Gerhard Richter, Ellsworth Kelly, Janis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone, Mario Merz and Luciano Fabro. There are also works by Winters, Lothar Baumgarten, Christian Boltanski, Anselm Kiefer, Rebecca Horn, Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Schutte, Juan Munoz, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Wall, Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons and also works by younger foreign artists such as Didier Vermeiren, Andrea Zittel, Matyhew Barney, Robert Gober and Tony Oursler. Sculpture dates mainly from the 20th century, but with some from earlier periods. Pre-1920 works include an important sculpture by Boccioni and one by Lehmbruch. The inter-war period includes a fine collection of sculptures by Giacometti, whilst post-war collections of 1945-1960 include sculpture by Germaine Richier, Jean Fautrier (‘Large Tragic Head’), two small sculptures by Tinguely, a major recent work by Bourgeois and a late Cubi sculpture by David Smith. Recent works from 11960-1972 include sculpture by de Kooning, Judd, Serra and Chillida.

Subjects

Sculpture; Paintings; Fine Art; Photography

Photographic Collection

The photographic collections represent work created by artists using the medium of photography. There are a number of early works, although collecting focuses on post-1990 material, rather than the modern period (i.e. post 1880). Other media such as film and video are also represented in the collection and this is an increasingly collected form of artwork.

Subjects

Photography

Special collections

Special collections are 20 groups of works acquired by gift or bequest and range from the Turner Bequest to the Frank Stoop collection of modern paintings formed during the 1920s.Later he made a gift and bequest of his whole collection in 1933, including works by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani forming the core of the collection of international art. In 1856 Turner’s estate was settled by a decree as the ‘Turner Bequest’ of 300 oil paintings and 30,000 sketches and watercolours, including 300 sketchbooks, with a small number of works since identified as by other artists.Sir Francis Chantrey (1781 – 1841) bequeathed a fortune and asked that the income be used to buy paintings and sculpture made in Britain to establish a ‘public national collection of British fine art’. The fund is administered by the Royal Academy, and until the 1920s this was the main purchase grant for the Tate Gallery. The Contemporary Art Society, founded in 1910 to promote modern art, has presented over 5,000 works to member museums throughout Britain. The Rose and Chris Prater Gift and the Curwen Studio Gift were founding gifts of Tate’s modern print collection in the mid-1970s with 650 lithographs by such artists as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. E.J Power (1899 – 1993) Tate Trustee from 1968 -1975, donated works by British and foreign artists and in 1980 he gave a group of works by Barnett Newman and Dubuffet, 23 works in all, also small early work by Joseph Beuys, and 6 further works from his estate allocated in lieu of tax. Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899) started buying paintings by living British artists and he first offered these as a gift to the nation in 1889. and by 1892 Tate had finalised this offer together with the further offer to build at his own expense a gallery for British art on Millbank in 1897. The 65 works included J E Millais’s Ophelia and J W Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott, but also by Lady Butler, Stanhope Forbes, Sir Edwin Landseer and Sir William Quiller Orchardson. Janet Wolfson de Botton presented 60 contemporary works in 1996 including paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography by 30 artists such as Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Cindy Sherman, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Reinhardt Mucha, Nancy Spero and an early Electric Chair by Andy Warhol and Elephant 1984 by Bill Woodrow. Alistair McAlpine (later Lord McAlpine of West Green) presented 60 recent sculptures in 1960 consisting of works by David Annesley, Michael Bolus, Phillip King, Tim Scott, William Tucker, William Turnbull and Isaac Witkin. Also separate works by Sir Sidney Nolan and other artists. Anne Kessler, niece of C Frank Stoop. Gave works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Raoul Dufy. The ‘Art Fund’ was launched in 1903 has helped to acquire 400 works including J. M. Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge, Piet Mondrian’s Sun, Church in Zeeland, David Smith’s Wagon II and Rebecca Horn’s Concert for Anarchy. The National Heritage Memorial Fund, established in 1980 has contributions to the purchase of Constable’s The Opening of Waterloo Bridge to Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Paul Oppé (1878-1957) collection of drawings, oil sketches and prints of over 3,000 works covering 17th to early 20th century was acquired in 1996 with strength in the 18th century including watercolours by Alexander and John Robert Cozens, John Downman and Francis Towne and oils by Thomas Jones, and 19th century works by John Constable, J S Cotman, George Richmond, J M W Turner and J W Inchbold. Patrons of British Art since 1986 has helped acquire paintings by William Blake, Spencer Gore, Sir Thomas Lawrence and C R W Nevinson, and sculptures by Thomas Woolner and Paule Vézelay. Patrons of New Art supports contemporary art through a wide range of acquisitions of work by artists including Absalon, Doris Salcedo, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, and Rachel Whiteread. Robert Vernon presented 166 paintings and sculptures in 1847 including paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and J M W Turner and sculptures by E H Baily and John Gibson. The Prater Gift, the majority presented in 1975, was the result of Rose and Chris Prater establishing the Kelpra Studio, and giving a copy of every print that produced including Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield and Peter Blake. The Tate American Fund, established in 1988 with an anonymous gift of $6 million, has acquired works by Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ernesto Neto and Adriana Varejao. The Tate Members, founded in 1958, has given 400 including Henry Moore’s sculpture King and Queen, acquired in 1959. Henri Matisse’s The Snail in 1962, John Constable’s The Opening of Waterloo Bridge, Gawen Hamilton’s, The Du Cane and Boehm Family Group, Joseph Wright of Derby’s Vesuvius in Eruption, Stanley Spencer’s Zacharias and Elizabeth, Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman and Andreas Gursky’s Parliament. In lieu acquisitions include 20 paintings by J M W Turner, J E Millais’ Mariana and work by Constantin Brancusi, Francis Picabia and Barbara Hepworth.

Archive

The Tate Archive, established in 1969, is based on personal papers donated and the gallery’s own activities and contains over 1 million documents housed at the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain. It includes personal papers, correspondence, gallery records, press cuttings, AV material, posters and printed ephemera. Archival material, of over 700 accessions, relates to British art and artists, collectors, critics, writers, galleries and institutions mainly from 1900.There is a small collection of earlier British and modern International material. There are also artists photographs, photographs of artists and installation shots, Tate exhibition installation photographs; press cuttings from major newspapers and some key periodicals are searched and mounted weekly; artist-designed posters; recordings of lectures and conferences held in Tate’s auditoria; oral history recordings of artists, particularly those relating to the National Sound Archive’s National Life Story Collection; Films and videos are donated by the artist being filmed or the Director/Producer.

Library

The Library covers British art from the Renaissance to present and international modern art with emphasis on fine art in the Western tradition and international contemporary art. Library includes a collection of 120,000 exhibition catalogues from museums and galleries throughout the world and is one of the largest of its type in the UK; Permanent collection catalogues from museums and galleries throughout the world and catalogues of private collections; Over 2,000 journal titles, including current subscriptions to approximately 400; artists’ bookworks from the 1960s onwards; Material on the history of Tate up to and including the creation of Tate Modern and Tate Britain; Press cuttings and catalogues of the Turner Prize from 1984; catalogues of fine art sales from major auction houses, including Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Phillips and the holdings of modern and contemporary art is particularly strong, especially in the post-war period.

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q195436
Also known as:: National Gallery of British Art, Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery of British Art
Part of:: Tate
Instance of:: art museum; national museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1410
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Collection overview (Wikipedia)
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works in the permanent Tate collection, which may be on display at Tate Britain include:
- Unknown 17th-century artist: The Cholmondeley Ladies
- Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- William Blake: Newton
- David Bomberg: The Mud Bath
- Hamad Butt: Familiars
- John Constable: Flatford Mill
- Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
- Herbert James Draper: The Lament for Icarus
- William Dyce: Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of 5 October 1858
- Augustus Egg: Past and Present
- Thomas Gainsborough: Giovanna Baccelli
- Mark Gertler: Merry-Go-Round
- Joseph Highmore: Pamela is Married
- William Hogarth: The Painter and his Pug
- William Holman Hunt: The Awakening Conscience
- John Martin: The Great Day of His Wrath
- Henry Moore: Recumbent Figure 1938
- Sir John Everett Millais: Ophelia
- Sir Joshua Reynolds: Three Ladies Adorning a Term of hymen
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ecce Ancilla Domini, Beata Beatrix
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling
- John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
- Stanley Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham
- George Stubbs: Horse Attacked by a Lion
- Henry Scott Tuke: August Blue
- J. M. W. Turner: The Golden Bough, Norham Castle, Sunrise
- Henry Wallis: The Death of Chatterton
- John William Waterhouse: The Lady of Shalott, The Magic Circle
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge
- Rose Wylie: Pin Up and Porn Queen Jigsaw
- Gillian Wise: Looped Network Suspended in Pictorial Space
- Alison Wilding: Assembly
- Rachel Whiteread: Untitled (Floor/Ceiling)
- Joanna Mary Wells: Gretchen
- Paule Vézelay: Five Forms
- Annie Louisa Swynnerton: Oreads
- Helen Saunders: Monochrome Abstract Composition
- Eva Rothschild: The Fallowfield
- Bridget Riley: Achæan
- Paula Rego: War
- Fiona Rae: Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century
- Grace Pailthorpe: December 4th, 1938
- Mabel Nicholson: Family Group
- Jessica Dismorr: Abstract Composition
- Lucy McKenzie: Side Entrance
- Mary Martin (artist): Inversions
- Hilary Lloyd: One Minute of Water
- Kim Lim: Shogun
- Liliane Lijn: Headborn
- Claudette Johnson: Standing Figure with African Masks
- Gwen John: Nude Girl
- Frances Hodgkins: Flatford Mill
- Susan Hiller: Belshazzar’s Feast, the Writing on Your Wall
- Amelia Robertson Hill: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Barbara Hepworth: Spring, 1957 (Project for Sculpture)
- Dora Gordine: Javanese Head
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Source: Wikipedia

Date: 2025

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Wikidata identifier:: Q517612
Part of:: Tate
Instance of:: art museum; museum building; national museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1412
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Wikidata identifier:: Q193375
Part of:: Tate
Instance of:: art museum; non-departmental public body; national museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 2091
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Collection history (Wikipedia)
Since the Tate Modern first opened in 2000, the collections have not been displayed in chronological order but have been arranged thematically into broad groups. Prior to the opening of the Switch House there were four of these groupings at a time, each allocated a wing on levels 3 and 5 (now levels 2 and 4).

The initial hanging from 2000 to 2006:
- History/Memory/Society
- Nude/Action/Body
- Landscape/Matter/Environment
- Still Life/Object/Real Life
The first rehang at Tate Modern opened in May 2006. It eschewed the thematic groupings in favour of focusing on pivotal moments of twentieth-century art. It also introduced spaces for shorter exhibitions in between the wings. The layout was:
- Material Gestures
- Poetry and Dream
- Energy and Process
- States of Flux
In 2012, there was a partial third rehang. The arrangement was:
- Poetry and Dream
- Structure and Clarity
- Transformed Visions
- Energy and Process
- Setting the Scene – A smaller section, located between wings, covering installations with theatrical or fictional themes.
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Date: 2025

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Collection overview (Wikipedia)
The main collection displays consist of 8 areas with a named theme or subject. As of June 2016 the themed areas were:
- Start Display: A three-room display of works by major artists to introduce the basic ideas of modern art.
- Artist and Society
- In The Studio
- Materials and Objects
- Media Networks
- Between Object and Architecture
- Performer and Participant
- Living Cities
There is also an area dedicated to displaying works from the Artist Rooms collection.

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Date: 2025

Licence: CC-BY-SA

Wikidata identifier:: Q2577210
Also known as:: Tate St. Ives, Tate Gallery St Ives
Part of:: Tate
Instance of:: art museum; history museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1413
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Wikidata identifier:: Q2628361
Part of:: National Trust
Instance of:: historic house museum; castle; archaeological site
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1685
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Wikidata identifier:: Q7688440
Part of:: National Trust
Instance of:: English country house
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1875
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Wikidata identifier:: Q113369998
Instance of:: museum; history museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 2127
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Wikidata identifier:: Q135511314
Also known as:: Ted Lewis Museum
Instance of:: museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 2539
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Wikidata identifier:: Q42846594
Also known as:: Teignmouth Museum, Teignmouth & Shaldon Museum, Teign Heritage
Instance of:: local museum; local authority museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 996
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Object records:: Yes, see object records for this museum

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Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Maritime Collection

The maritime collection is unusually strong for a local museum, as a result of the museums rights over the 16th century wreck, thought to be a Venetian trading vessel, lying off Teignmouth Church Rocks. Diving on the wreck has produced many interesting artefacts which are in the museum including bronze cannons and shot; a cooking pot; animal bones; a collection of iron chains; copper pots; and pottery. There are also research papers written about the wreck. There is also a gun raised from the wreck of the Peronne, a ship sunk off Teignmouth during the First World War. Other artefacts represent the local lifeboat, coastguard service and fishing industry.

Subjects

Maritime

Costume and Textile Collection

At the turn of the 20th century, Shaldon had a lace school and the museum has examples of the lace produced, as well as a photograph of the lace made by members of the school for the coronation robe of Queen Mary. There are also two samplers of mid 19th century date.

Subjects

Costume and Textile

Social History Collection

There are old pier gaming machines; memorabilia of both World Wars; and artefacts relating to local trades. There are some documents and personal effects of the first Lord Exmouth, the Rt Hon Edward Pellew (1775-1833), including an account of his fight to win the Battle of Algiers.

Subjects

Social History

Transport Collection

There is the original Act of Parliament for the South Devon Railway, tickets and timetables, as well as other items relating to the Great Western Railway. There is also a rare section of the atmospheric vacuum pipe from Isambard Kingdom Brunell’s ill-fated attempt to use atmospheric traction on the South Devon Railway. Haldon Aerodrome is reputed to have had the first railway air service in the world and the first flying school in the West Country. Together with the original Air Rally Cup, there are models and photographs of the planes which used the aerodrome.

Subjects

Transport

Fine Art Collection

The oil painting ‘Teignmouth Beach and the Ness’ (1829) by Thomas Luny is displayed in the museum, along with a sketch by the same artist.

Subjects

Fine Art

Photographic Collection

The photographic collection is large, with a good series of ‘then and now’ images of local views.

Subjects

Photographic equipment

Archives Collection

Among this collection are research papers written about the 16th century wreck lying off Teignmouth Church Rocks. There are also family records and papers and an ephemera collection.

Subjects

Archives

Other

Subjects

Agriculture; Archaeology; Arms and Armour; Biology; Geology; Medals; Medicine; Music; Numismatics; Oral History; Science and Industry; Decorative and Applied Arts

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q2748017
Also known as:: Temple Newsam House, Temple Newsham
Part of:: Leeds Museums & Galleries
Instance of:: historic house museum; commandry; local authority museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1345
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q2748017/
Collection level records:: Yes, see Leeds Museums & Galleries

Wikidata identifier:: Q7699532
Also known as:: Tenbury Wells Museum, Tenbury Museum and History Group
Instance of:: local museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 986
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7699532/

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Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Archives Collection

The collection contains a range of local ephemera, and also a near-complete series of the Tenbury Wells Advertiser, 1870-1985.

Subjects

Documents (historic); Archives

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q7699538
Also known as:: Amgueddfa ac Oriel Dinbych-y-pysgod
Instance of:: local museum; art museum; independent museum; museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1241
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7699538/

Collection-level records:

Collection overview (Collection development policy)

Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest independent museum in Wales. It was established in 1878 by a group of local collectors to display archaeological, geological, botanical and natural history specimens largely collected from local sites with the aim of providing an educational resource for locals and visitors. Significant collections from the time of its inception included the archaeology collections of Reverend Gilbert Smith, the geological collections of Edward Aurelain Ridsdale and the conchology collections of William Lyons.

The Museum itself houses three permanent galleries and two temporary exhibition spaces.

The permanent art gallery features work by local artists and examples of 20th century artists of note with strong Welsh links.

There are also galleries that explore the prehistory of the area, from the Precambrian times through to the Romano-British period (1st-5th century); The Story of Tenby Gallery that traces the history of the town from the 9th century through to the present day and which also explores Tenby connections with the sea. A temporary exhibition space shows changing displays relating to Tenby and the local area.

Over the years the museum’s collections have developed to include social history artefacts. These include domestic items from the 17th to the 21st century; militaria (especially relating to the Yeomanry and the two World Wars); maritime; textiles and costume; numismatics and fine art. There is also a considerable archive of documents including the Tenby Borough Council records (from the 15th century to the present day), charters (157 – 1702), ephemera, local newspapers (from 1835 onwards), posters, maps and plans, postcards and photographs.

The museum’s areas of strength include its archaeology, natural history and fine art collections. The extensive archaeological collections of material cover the Pembrokeshire area from the Palaeolithic to the English Civil War.

The geological collection includes specimens of Pembrokeshire geology from the Lower Palaeozoic period to the last Ice Age, including a fine collection of Welsh minerals. The Ridsdale geological collection features specimens collected from geological sites from all over the world.

The natural history collections include taxidermy specimens of mammals and birds found locally; the Lyons and Stubbs conchology collections; lepidoptera and entomological specimens and the Frederick Walker herbarium.

The Fine Art collection includes works by some of the finest and most important 20th century artists associated with Wales including David Jones, John Piper, John Uzzell Edwards, Kyffin Williams, Denis Curry, Grahame Hurd-Wood, Nina Hamnett, Claudia Williams, Gwilym Prichard and Meirion Jones. There is also a significant collection of paintings by 19th century topographical artist Charles Norris. Specific efforts have been made to collect works by Tenby’s most notable artists Gwen and Augustus John. An important collection of personal memorabilia relating to these two artists was acquired from the family in 2010.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2020

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q113369895
Instance of:: museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1051
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q113369895/

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Collection history (Collection development policy)

The current collection has evolved since 1976 primarily through donations. Items must have relevance and provenance to Tenterden and the surrounding district which in practice includes villages within a 6 mile radius of the town.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2023

Licence: CC BY-NC
Collection overview (Collection development policy)
Subjects currently displayed:-
- Medieval shipbuilding, Cinque Ports, the town’s Borough heritage and archaeological finds from the district.
- Victorian memorabilia pertaining to the home and local trade and industry including shops, banks, the tannery, blacksmiths, brewery and Halden pottery industries. Local institutions such as schools, police, fire brigade, town & borough councils are also included.
- Life in a typical mid-20th century home. Tenterden & District in the 20th century is also described using wallboards, interactive system information and through oral history.
- The development of agriculture both on the nearby marsh and in the Weald together with the crafts and industries that supported them. Hops, hop picking and oasts are included as a feature of local heritage.
- Architecture in Tenterden and district, including the Georgian theatre and our brewing heritage.
- Items relating to clubs and societies including scouts, guides, Women’s Institutes and the Tenterden & District Motorcycle Club.
- All of the items in our Reserve Collection, which are grouped by subject and displayed on shelves in cabinets in the Store Room.
- Other items in the collection, though not on display include:
  - Maps, sale and deed documents which give an insight into the social history of the area.
  - Genealogy and family histories including those relating to many local families who were some of the first settlers in America.
Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2023

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q116738965
Instance of:: police museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1581
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q116738965/

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Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Costume and Textile Collection

The costume collection comprises some examples of uniforms, badges and helmets.

Subjects

Costume and Textile

Social History Collection

Material in the social history collection includes batons, handcuffs, lamps, whistles, bicycles and a camera, as well as a few personal police artefacts.

Subjects

Social History

Photographic Collection

There are a number of photographs of the Gloucestershire County Constabulary.

Subjects

Photography

Archives Collection

This collection comprises documents and correspondence, journals, books and pamphlets.

Subjects

Archives

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q7707197
Instance of:: museum; house
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 1377
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7707197/
Collection level records:: Yes, see

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Collection overview (Cornucopia)

Social History Collection

There are woodworking tools; some fairground models and a diorama of the castle illustrating the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471. The collection also includes civic regalia.

Subjects

Social History

Archaeology Collection

There are some archaeological artefacts of prehistoric and Roman date; and a larger collection of 17th to 19th century material excavated between 1962 and 1988 and material excavated at Holm Castle.

Subjects

Archaeology

Archives Collection

There are some photographs and documents relating to the past and present town of Tewkesbury.

Subjects

Archives

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q7708922
Also known as:: Thackray Medical Museum
Instance of:: medical museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 303
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7708922/
Object records:: Yes, see object records for this museum

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Collection overview (Adapted from Collections development policy)

The Thackray Museum of Medicine collection encompasses three main areas: objects, library and archival material. The majority of the collection dates from the 18^th century to the present day, but there are small collections of Roman, medieval and early modern objects.

Object Collection

The object collection comprises over 45,000 objects. Areas of particular strength include:

Surgical instruments and implants from the 1600s to the present day, with the period 1870- 1970 particularly strongly represented. The collection includes products from over 20 different countries, particularly British, German and French instruments. One strongly represented implant is the Charnley hip, the first truly successful total hip replacement, designed in collaboration with Chas. F. Thackray Ltd.

The John F. Wilkinson collection of British and European drug jars, which incorporates the largest collection of English Delftware drug jars in Britain, possibly in the world. Other apothecary and pharmaceutical holdings include materia medica in the form of dried plant and mineral specimens, pill-making and weighing equipment, and thousands of tablets, ampoules and bottles from the 19^th to 21^st centuries.

Disability aids, including prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, spectacles, and a huge collection of hearing aids and audiological testing equipment, from 19^th century acoustic fans and ear trumpets to 21^st-century cochlear implants.

Hospital equipment and furniture from the 19^th and 20^th centuries, including British anaesthetic apparatus; diagnostic equipment like x-ray machines; and ward staples, including urinals, bedpans and dressing trays.

Uniforms worn by a range of healthcare providers from the First World War onwards. The textile collection also holds two large AIDS memorial quilts made in Leeds during workshops facilitated by BHA Leeds Skyline, a local HIV support service.

A large collection of apothecary tokens, advertising tokens and medals dating from the 17^th to 20^th centuries.

Library Collection

The Library collection encompasses 10,800 books and 17,000 medical trade catalogues featuring a wide variety of surgical and healthcare products, making it one of the largest collections of medical trade literature in the UK. The majority of the holdings are in English, but numerous languages are represented, particularly German, French and Latin.

Highlights include surgical manuals dating from the 1599 onwards; early catalogues and public information books promoting contraception; quack literature, including over 200 volumes relating to the pseudo-science of phrenology; medical journals from the 19^th to 21^st centuries; and thousands of reference books covering the history of medicine, including first aid, midwifery, and pharmacology.

Archive Collection

The archive contains over 10,000 items and is made up of separate collections, largely relating to medical supply companies and personal papers of doctors, nurses and surgeons. The most significant collection is the archives of the Chas. F. Thackray Company (circa 30 boxes), the former Leeds-based medical supplies company. The Thackray company archive covers the life of the firm from 1902-1990 and contains items such as trade catalogues, notebooks, instrument drawings and press cuttings.

Other major collections held by the museum’s archive include archives of the Oxford Knee (circa 79 boxes), relating to the development of the Oxford Partial Knee implant, one of the most widely used and clinically proven partial knee replacements in the world; the Scholl archive of catalogues, advertising material and company magazines relating to foot comfort products; records relating to Lindsey and Sons, a company which built surgical appliances, including special footwear; the Calenduline Company, a Chicago-based company that manufactured treatments for the eye and throat; the Eschmann company, who were pioneers in making operating tables; and the Downs Surgical Limited company – material relating to an instrument manufacturing company who were pioneers in the manufacture of high-quality medical instruments, particularly those used in ear, nose and throat surgery.

The archive contains over 50 collections of personal papers and photographs of doctors, nurses and surgeons who largely worked in Leeds. Names of surgeons whose papers we hold include Herbert Agar, Henry Shucksmith, Leslie Pyrah and William Blair-Bell, while the archive holds papers relating to Dr Michael Martin OBE, who worked for the Royal National Institute of the Deaf for 35 years, as well as papers relating to Dr J.F. Wilkinson, relating to his life and work as a haematologist and as a collector of apothecary jars.

Other significant material in the archive includes collections of dispensed prescriptions, pharmacy day books, invoices, correspondence, promotional posters, letters and postcards, business cards, packaging material, flyers, patents and annotated literature. The collection also contains recipe books compiled by individuals between the 17^th and 19^th centuries, containing handwritten lists of formulae for food, drink, medicines and remedies.

Source: Adapted from Collections development policy

Date: 2025

Licence: CC BY-NC
Collection history (Collection development policy)

The Thackray Museum of Medicine is named after Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, a medical supply company founded in 1902. Paul Thackray, a director of the company and grandson of the founder, formed a private collection around 1984. This initial collection was focused on the trade and manufacture of surgical instruments and implants, reflecting the interests of the firm. When Chas. F. Thackray Ltd was sold in 1990, Paul Thackray donated his collection of objects, along with the Thackray company archive and a growing library, to create a small museum, which opened to the public in 1997.

The collection’s focus has broadened significantly in the years since its foundation, and it now covers the wider story of medicine and healthcare. The museum continues to actively collect, aiming to fill out underrepresented areas and reflect new medical innovations.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2020

Licence: CC BY-NC

Wikidata identifier:: Q39047643
Instance of:: museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:: Accredited museum
Accreditation number:: 2208
Persistent shareable link for this record:: https://museumdata.uk/museums/q39047643/
Collection level records:: Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.

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